Dell 5570 (Sierra) supported?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Tue Nov 25 10:59:05 PST 2014


On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 19:54 +0100, Manuel Lauss wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Aleksander Morgado
> <aleksander at aleksander.es> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Manuel, could you apply the attached patch to a custom libmbim build and test?
> >>
> >>
> >> That worked, mm can now see it, but:
> >>
> >> # mmcli -i 0 --enable-pin --pin=1234
> >> error: couldn't enable PIN code request in the SIM:
> >> 'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.libmbim.Error.Status.NoDeviceSupport:
> >> NoDeviceSupport'
> >
> >
> > If you want to unlock the PIN, don't use --enable-pin, instead just:
> > # mmcli -i 0 --pin=1234
> 
> Okay, thanks, that worked, on to the next problem:
> 
> # mmcli -m 0 -v --enable
> [25 Nov 2014, 19:49:31] [Debug] ModemManager process found at ':1.36'
> [25 Nov 2014, 19:49:31] [Debug] Assuming '0' is the modem index
> [25 Nov 2014, 19:49:31] [Debug] Modem found at
> '/org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Modem/0'
> 
> [25 Nov 2014, 19:49:31] [Debug] Synchronously enabling modem...
> error: couldn't enable the modem:
> 'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.libmbim.Error.Status.Failure: Failure'
> 
> 
> 
> # mmcli -v -m 0
> [25 Nov 2014, 19:52:42] [Debug] ModemManager process found at ':1.36'
> [25 Nov 2014, 19:52:42] [Debug] Assuming '0' is the modem index
> [25 Nov 2014, 19:52:42] [Debug] Modem found at
> '/org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Modem/0'
> 
> [25 Nov 2014, 19:52:42] [Debug] Printing modem info...
> 
> /org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Modem/0 (device id
> '2ddd1761c3731103193e0459da9459e6cad6d27d')
>   -------------------------
>   Hardware |   manufacturer: 'Generic'
>            |          model: 'MBIM [413C:81A3]'
>            |       revision: 'SWI9X15C_01.12'
>            |      supported: 'gsm-umts'
>            |        current: 'gsm-umts'
>            |   equipment id: '355605055648221'
>   -------------------------
>   System   |         device: '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-10'
>            |        drivers: 'cdc_mbim'
>            |         plugin: 'Generic'
>            |   primary port: 'cdc-wdm0'
>            |          ports: 'cdc-wdm0 (mbim), wwan0 (net)'
>   -------------------------
>   Numbers  |           own : 'unknown'
>   -------------------------
>   Status   |           lock: 'none'
>            | unlock retries: 'sim-pin2 (3)'
>            |          state: 'disabled'
>            |    power state: 'low'
>            |    access tech: 'unknown'
>            | signal quality: '0' (cached)
>   -------------------------
>   Modes    |      supported: 'allowed: 2g, 3g; preferred: none'
>            |        current: 'allowed: 2g, 3g; preferred: none'
>   -------------------------
>   Bands    |      supported: 'unknown'
>            |        current: 'unknown'
>   -------------------------
>   IP       |      supported: 'ipv4, ipv6, ipv4v6'
>   -------------------------
>   3GPP     |           imei: '355605055648221'
>            |  enabled locks: 'sim, fixed-dialing'
>            |    operator id: 'unknown'
>            |  operator name: 'unknown'
>            |   subscription: 'unknown'
>            |   registration: 'unknown'
>   -------------------------
>   SIM      |           path: '/org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/SIM/0'
> 
>   -------------------------
>   Bearers  |          paths: 'none'
> 

Are you 100% sure this machine does not have some kind of "airplane
mode" switch that controls whether the radio on the WWAN card is on/off?
What do you get when you run 'rfkill list' ?

Dan



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